Production Development Through CIM:
Computers in Industrial manufacturing,Product cycle & Production development cycle, Introduction of CAD/CAM & CIM, sequential and concurrent engineering, soft and hard prototyping
Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Automation:
Fundamentals of CAD/CAM,Computerized Manufacturing planning systems, shop floor control & automatic identification techniques. Computer Network for manufacturing and the future automated factor.
Detroit Type of Automation:
Flow lines, DifferentTransfer Mechanisms, workpattern transfer, Different methods.
Analysis of Automated flow lines:
Analysis of transfer lines without storage, with storagebuffer, single stage, Double stage, Multistage with problems, Automated assembly systems, Design for automated assembly, parts feeding devices..
Computer Process Monitoring:
Process control methods, direct digital control, supervisorycomputer control, steady state optimal control, on line search strategies, adaptive control.
Automated Material Handling and Storage:
Material functions, types of material handlingequipment, analysis of material handling systems, design of system, conveyor system, automated guided vehicle systems, automated storage/retrieval systems, caroused storage systems work in process storage, interfacing handling & storage with manufacturing.
Robotics in Material Handling:
General considerations in robot material handling – material transfer application – pick &place operations – machine loading & unloading – characte ristics of robot application.
Computer Aided Quality Control:
The computer in Q.C, automated inspection principlesand methods, Contact inspection methods, non-contact inspection methods, machine vision system, optical inspection method, sensors, coordinate measuring machine.